“Given Office’s status, it’s a major eyebrow raiser that this category was won by relative newcomer IBM Lotus Symphony. Perhaps it’s because Big Blue’s product is free (that always helps), or because IBM is itself such an established vendor. Whatever the case, consider this vote as a huge upset.”

“I am awed by the security apparatus which is being rolled out to ensure the integrity of the open standards process. Photo ID requirements, badged access to the meeting room, prohibitions against cameras and recording devices, no observers, no press. Truly, this is what open standards are all about.”

Just imagine had they done this three years ago instead of offering a license to Massachusetts that did not allow GPL implementations. As I’ve said before, these binary formats will live on, though I suspect OOXML will die off.

“City election officials this week said that their formal review of the results, which will not be completed for weeks, had confirmed some major discrepancies between the vote totals reported publicly — and unofficially — on primary night and the actual tally on hundreds of voting machines across the city.”

“innotek’s product, VirtualBox, is a GPL-licensed, open-source platform that allows a single desktop or even laptop PC to run multiple operating systems concurrently. Users can jump between the platforms with the click of a mouse.”